EDC 430 - Science Teaching Methods
Agenda for Class 05:Monday, October 12, 2015

Goal(s) for Class

  • Begin to plan our shared units

Activities

  • Announcements/Administrativia
    • Applications to graduate?
  • Lesson Planning:
  • Break
  • Sharing
    • Stories
    • ScienceDaily Research
    • Pedagogy Research
    • Practicums
      • What did you see in your classrooms?
      • What concerns do you have?
      • How do your classroom compare to the lesson video we saw earlier?
  • Break
  • Student 5 Slide Presentations
    • Think of questions that YOU would ask your students about each topic.
  • Draw a Scientist Data Analysis
  • Reflection
    • What did you take away?
    • How will you apply his guidance to
      • your teaching philosophy?
      • your approach to teaching?

Homework

  • Observation
    • Watch what is going on one of your classrooms and complete Observe and Reflect Journal Entry #2
  • Reading
    • NGSS Primer pp. 84-114
    • Access Burden & Byrd Ch 7 - Strategies for Teaching for Understanding in our Shared Notebook. Don't waste your time by reading this w/o taking notes.
  • Research
    • Explore Edutopia, TEDTalks, or The Science Teacher, Educational Leadership, or Pi Delta Kappan to locate and summarize at least TEN MORE articles on one of these topics:
      • Motivating students
      • Passionate Teaching
      • Project-based Teaching
      • Growth vs Fixed Mindset
      • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation
      • Metacognition - Teaching Thinking Skills
      • 21st Century Skills
      • Classroom Questioning: Suggested Reference from Edutopia
    • Explore ScienceDaily.com Use the webclipper to gather at least 5 science articles related to a science topic that we decide on in class.
  • Writing
    • Pick one topic from our mindmaps. Develop a Lesson Plan to teach this topic. Use the Lesson Plan Template in our Shared Notebook.
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